{"id":9458,"date":"2025-04-25T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/04\/25\/adrian-m7efos-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:36:17","slug":"adrian-m7efos-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/04\/25\/adrian-m7efos-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian M7EFO&#8217;s FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Nfq4tvSuv0c?si=wnmDaPzC27v-pDGP?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Adrian has completed a very FB direct conversion receiver. Really nice work. It is especially pleasing to see that Adrian is a member of GQRP. FB Adrian. SSB above, CW in the video below. I think that China Radio International signal would be a good early target for your tinkering and mods. We fought a similar battle against Radio Marti. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Adrian writes: <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><i><b>Did it!!! It Works.! Receives CW, SSB,FT8. Awesome. Thanks Bill. Thanks Dean. It was fun. Now for the tinkering and modifications.<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><b><br \/><\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i><b>CW too. As an added bonus it picks up China Radio International radio whether I like it or not.\ud83d\ude04<\/b><\/i><\/div>\n<div><span face=\"\"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;\"><i><b><br \/><\/b><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span face=\"\"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"background-color: white;\"><i><b>Hello. I live in East Barnet a suburb of London, UK.<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif;\"><i><b>I work as an electronic technician and tech support for a small company. <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif;\"><i><b>My rig is a Xeigu G90 with a home made dipole cut for 20 metres and 40 metres and run QRP at 5-10 watts, 5 watts FT8, I&#8217;ll save the kilowatts for boiling the kettle! I&#8217;m using an old <s>PC<\/s> server power supply. <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif;\"><i><b>The shack computer is a <s>Raspberry Pi3<\/s> Raspberry Pi400 (<s>Stolen <\/s>Borrowed from my daughter<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cheeky\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/tongue_smile.png\" style=\"height: 23px; width: 23px;\" title=\"cheeky\" \/>). I am surprised at how well my set up works. Sometimes.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif;\"><i><b>I am a member of the GQRP club and have started building some kits and homebrew in the Manhattan style. <\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif;\"><i><b>Currently studying for my UK Intermediate licence with Bath Based Distance Learning.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-bio.qrz.com\/o\/m7efo\/qfyyB3Js.jpeg?p=c4ca57b719bdee156befcbd32671a930\" style=\"height: 100px; width: 56px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"background-color: white; font-family: \"Lucida Grande\", \"Lucida Sans\", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eThVAfrgy_w?si=ycdAU02gOZkrQFz8?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian has completed a very FB direct conversion receiver. Really nice work. It is especially pleasing to see that Adrian is a member of GQRP. FB Adrian. SSB above, CW in the video below. I think that China Radio International signal would be a good early target for your tinkering and mods. We fought a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2025\/04\/25\/adrian-m7efos-fb-soldersmoke-direct-conversion-receiver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Adrian M7EFO&#8217;s FB SolderSmoke Direct Conversion Receiver&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,192,17,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-receiver-build","category-dc-rx-hall-of-fame","category-gqrp","category-sprat","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9460,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9458\/revisions\/9460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}